Sally Fox Innovative Lives Presentation, 1997

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Interviewee:

Fox, Sally

Creator:

Person, Abigail

Subject:

Fox Fibre

Natural Cotton Colours, Inc

Physical description:

0.25 cu. ft.: 1 box

Type:

Videotapes

Collection descriptions

Oral history

Interviews

Date:

1997

1980-2000

20th century

1990-2000

Notes:

Sally Fox began growing brown cotton in 1982 and experimented with cross breeding it. By 1985 some of Fox's plants growing from crosspollinated seeds produced green cotton as well as brown. These naturally colored cottons were brought to the marketplace in 1989, when Fox established her company, Natural Cotton Colours, Inc., in Arizona. Fox Fibre is the registered trademark of her naturally colored cotton.

Summary:

Original and master videotapes documenting an interview with Sally Fox, an inventor of a commercially spinnable naturally colored cotton.

Cite as:

Sally Fox Innovative Lives Presentation, 1997, Archives Center, National Museum of American History